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- Title
Jonathan Myerson's The Canterbury Tales: The screenwriting sovereignty of animation.
- Authors
Wells, Paul
- Abstract
This discussion explores the ways in which screenwriter, Jonathan Myerson, adapts the Prologue and six of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, for two 30-minute animated episodes, commissioned by the BBC in the United Kingdom, principally for educational broadcast. The analysis demonstrates how the distinctive characteristics of the animation vocabulary - metamorphosis, condensation, anthropomorphism, choreography, fabrication, performance, sound, etc. - are used as screenwriting tools, essentially distilling and translating Chaucer's text into a concentrated visual dramaturgy. Myerson's interpretation of the text fully exploits animation as a transubstantiation language in 2D and 3D, and enables animation to reveal and exemplify Chaucer's wit, themes and outlook.
- Subjects
CANTERBURY Tales, The (TV program); TELEVISION adaptations; MYERSON, Jonathan; TELEVISION script writing; ANIMATED television programs; CANTERBURY Tales
- Publication
Journal of Screenwriting, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
1759-7137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/josc.7.1.65_1